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Future of Computing

Articles on the future of computing; a glimpse at our future computing technologies and how we will be effected by them.

Feb 15 2008

Turn any mobile phone into a heart rate monitor

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The company who brought us the BodyKom™ series are at it again.

Kiwok, a Swedish software company have developed an amazing and potentially live saving device which attaches to any mobile phone to monitor heart rate function.

Feb 08 2008

5 times as much Malware

Reports suggest that there were five times as many malicious programs on the net in 2007 than in 2006. AV, a security software testing organisation saw over 5 million unique programs compared with under a million for 2006.

Feb 06 2008

Store 500 gigabit per square inch

An unbelievable half a terrabit per square inch, Crestec, the company behind the next generation hard drives have named the new technology ‘patterned media disks’

Feb 04 2008

Cool your computer with Vegetable Oil

Submersing your latest PC components in chip fat, is not something that readily jumps to our minds as a sensible thing to do.

But this is fast becoming a tried and tested way of creating a super quiet, energy efficient way to house and cool your computer.

Feb 03 2008

Free HP computers not so ‘Free’ after all

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HP who issued free computers to the remotest areas of China with each Broadband connection contract, have been under fire from users today.

Complaining of poor quality service, crashing computers and suggestions that they actually pay for the computers after all.